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jueves, 19 de febrero de 2009

Un genio el tipo, leerlo me hizo reavivar mi gusto por el Inglés, el párrafo último, genial, jajajaja, que ídolo.

I should be clear up front: I'm not a linguist, nor a scholar of the history of the language. (If you're curious about who I am, you can look at my CV and decide whether I'm worth listening to.) Linguists are wary of "prescriptive" grammars, which set out standards of "correct" and "incorrect" usage — grammars that usually insist correctness reigned in the good old days, whereas we've been on the road to hell ever since. Professional linguists are adamant that the language isn't "declining," and that many usages censured by self-styled grammarians are in fact perfectly reasonable, whether on historical grounds, logical grounds, or both.


And they're right. I reject any model of linguistic decline, in which the twenty-first century speaks a decadent version of the language of some golden age. I don't lie awake at night worrying about the decline of "proper" English. (In my grumpier moods, I'm convinced the whole world's going to hell — but then, I'm convinced the whole world's been going to hell since time out of mind. In my more sanguine moods, I wonder whether hell isn't such a bad place to be after all.) I know, too, that many things offered as "good" grammar or style have little basis in history or in logic.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html

Para estilizar y perfeccionar (y meditar un poco) tu forma de escribir inglés, y también, realmente, sirve para corregir la forma de escribir en cualquier idioma, porque describe también trucos y explicaciónes sobre el "escribir" en general.

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